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Toshio Nishi

Toshio Nishi is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. He currently teaches at the Institute of Moralogy in Kashiwa, Japan.

From 1968 to 1971, Nishi worked as the first Japanese account representative for the J. Walter Thomson Company in New York and Tokyo.

From 1977 to 1985, Nishi was a postdoctoral fellow at the Hoover Institution as the first recipient of the Paul and Jean Hanna Endowment Fellowship. From 1985 to 1991, Nishi was a foreign correspondent for NHK Journal, a radio program of Japan's largest media system.

Nishi is working on several manuscripts: Japan's Last Stand in the 21st Century (in English), Fireflies of the Empire (fiction in English), and an article entitled "Holy Ghost, Divine Greed, Slow Massacre: The Europeans in Sixteenth-Century Japan.” Currently he has been concentrating on Pearl Harbor and its lasting consequences.

Nishi has been awarded many scholarships and grants. From 1977 to 1985, he worked under a postdoctoral fellowship from the Hoover Institution. In 1977 he received the prestigious Harry S. Truman Scholarship from the Harry S. Truman Library Institute in Missouri.

After earning a BA in literature from Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan in 1964, Nishi received his MA in communications in 1968 and his PhD in political studies of education in 1976, both from the University of Washington at Seattle.

From the 1950s through the 1980s, Japan experienced dramatic economic growth as it transformed itself from a defeated militaristic empire into a democratic, high-technology powerhouse. The Japanese economy became so dynamic that, by the late 1980s, some American experts were arguing that Japan would overtake the United States as the world's dominant economic power. And then the Japanese economy collapsed. And for nearly fifteen years, the economic malaise has continued. Why? What does Japan need to do to snap out of its doldrums? And what are the risks and benefits to American interests of a reinvigorated Japan?

On December 8 (Japan time), 1941, Imperial Japan launched a massive attack on beautiful Pearl Harbor, calling it "the preemptive first strike." The island empire, seduced by a mirage of eternal glory, had lunged forward without knowing its destination.

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